domination
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,483
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
domination is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de dominer par la puissance ou l’autorité. Pronounced \dɔ.mi.na.sjɔ̃\. It ranks #4,483 in French word frequency. Often confused with donation and dominion.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | domination |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \dɔ.mi.na.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,483 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for domination is 10 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \dɔ.mi.na.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,483 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for domination, with forms such as "ddomination", "dmoination", and "doimnation". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "donation", "dominion", "damnation", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is domination, spelled D-O-M-I-N-A-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de dominer par la puissance ou l’autorité.
- 2Rapport de pouvoir ou de suprématie exercé par un État, un empire, une classe ou un groupe sur un autre.
- 3Concept désignant une relation de pouvoir institutionnalisée et légitimée, théorisé notamment par Max Weber (domination traditionnelle, domination charismatique, domination rationnelle-légale).
- 4Jeu où un partenaire domine l’autre.
- 5Un des ordres de la hiérarchie des anges.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ddomination,dmoination,doimnation,domiantion,dominaiton,dominatino,dominationn,dominatoin,dominattion,dominnation,domintaion,dommination,domniation,odmination
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for domination
Misspelling Variants of "domination"
Frequency rank: #4,483 in French
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